Subhead:Sheila Gunn Reid looks at how new documents reveal Parks Canada bureaucrats were skeptical over claims about mass graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School — only to remain silent as the false narrative spread through the government and media.#
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What if I told you that a major federal agency quietly questioned one of the most explosive claims in recent Canadian memory — but said nothing publicly, because the prime minister had already turned it into a national tragedy?
That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s Parks Canada.
Internal records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter now reveal that as early as 2023, Parks Canada officials were privately skeptical of the headline-grabbing claim that 215 children’s remains had been discovered in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
The agency’s own archaeologists and historians concluded: there was no physical evidence.
Not “insufficient evidence.” No evidence at all. But publicly? Silence.
Instead, the agency lowered flags, sent tearful internal emails, and parroted the political line. One exec said he was “in shambles” after reading about it in The Guardian — not a forensic report, mind you, The Guardian. Another manager cancelled a staff meeting as an act of mourning.
And this blind allegiance wasn’t limited to bureaucrats.
